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This report describes the US Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reports Initiative (NSI) which aims to have most federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement organizations participate in a standardized, integrated approach to gathering, documenting, processing and analyzing terrorism-related information. The author details the rationale for the sharing of terrorism-related Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and how the NSI seeks to achieve this objective. He further examines the privacy and civil liberties concerns raised by the initiative and identifies other oversight issues for Congress.